U.S. District Court Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley ruled on Monday that Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta did not have jurisdiction to sue Trump in the Northern District of California. In doing so, she partially sided with the U.S. Department of Justice’s assertion that the case belonged in the New York-based Court of International Trade.

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A judge who applied a negative multiplier to the lodestar figure when calculating an attorney-fee award in a case implicating public-policy concerns was entitled to rely on her savvy as to when there is bill-padding, and she did not need to get into the nitty gritty of precisely where excessive fees were claimed, Div. Five of this district’s Court of Appeal has held in a 2-1 opinion.

The case centers on whether the utilities commission, known as the CPUC, made the legally correct call when it changed the rules regarding how the estimated 2 million rooftop solar customers in California get compensated when their systems generate more electricity than they consume.